You can only restore the credibility of the US quickly if you don't just try to meekly rebuild state capacity but also mete out punishment to the people who destroyed it. Both the right thing to do and a necessarily signal to send our allies that we will discourage this from ever happening again. - ThreadSky

mtsw.bsky.social • 89 days ago

You can only restore the credibility of the US quickly if you don't just try to meekly rebuild state capacity but also mete out punishment to the people who destroyed it. Both the right thing to do and a necessarily signal to send our allies that we will discourage this from ever happening again.

Reposted from Brendan Nyhan

Ominously plausible warnings from @filipecampante.bsky.social of what our descent into competitive authoritarianism could look like

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flopasasquatch.bsky.social•89 days ago

Yep. This is what Biden and Garland should've done...sigh

andreaandrea.bsky.social•89 days ago

Really hoping for a D primary bloodbath

forevernever.bsky.social•89 days ago

A lot of people inside and outside of government should have gone to jail—or at least received lifetime bans from working in certain industries—in 2009.

We continue to live with the "look forward" mistake.

forevernever.bsky.social•89 days ago

The crooks on Wall Street who caused the Great Recession still have their FINRA certifications and are currently planning the exact same shit, except worse.

forevernever.bsky.social•89 days ago

And let's not even get started on the war crimes in GWBush's administration which got unpunished, except for some grunts.

steel-is-real.bsky.social•89 days ago

Marshall law is the only option

You then nationalize social media and imprison those who abetted this

dragondad10.bsky.social•89 days ago

Right— the reality is that any Democrat that comes to office in 2028 is going to have to take authoritarian measures or else utterly fail to fix even a fraction of the damage being done currently. 4 years of getting stymied by the Republican Supreme Court ain’t gonna cut it.

sekellick.bsky.social•89 days ago

If they had the will to do it last term, we wouldn't be here now

jag032507.bsky.social•89 days ago

With extreme prejudice.

alexsaysstuff.bsky.social•89 days ago

That's the thing. Once you're in a competitive authoritarian regime, you can't just go back to a regular electoral democracy with the party/faction/etc that brought you to this situation. You need to build it anew on top of them.

mattkavanagh.bsky.social•89 days ago

And the Trumpified judiciary won’t let you, even if there’s a will. Ominously, this feels like a political problem that cannot be solved by the political system.

jnmandal.bsky.social•89 days ago

Being honest mate I think its just naive to assume things can be "restored". A better world is possible, no doubt, but things are not going back.

Long term outlook was already not favorable before dismantling began in 2016. Accelerating climate collapse/polycrisis will not make this any easier.

nirgalm25.bsky.social•89 days ago

We can't let Trump break things by executive fiat and then take executive fiat off the table when it's time to fix things. The American people don't require the Senate or the court's permission to have a democracy

dissenterbedamned.bsky.social•89 days ago

I genuinely can't think of any instance of upper class people doing something wrong then getting punished by the american establishment. I'm pretty sure the purpose of the US is to attract scammers and money launderers.

crzwdjk.bsky.social•89 days ago

The Dems just need to get their heads out of their asses, the obstacles to increased state capacity are purely political.

randyhermanlaw.com•89 days ago

Turn the whole cabinet over to ICC

bryanmurphy.bsky.social•89 days ago

It’s a nearly impossible situation to imagine. They’ll have no capacity for enforcement. Not only will it all be private security, few courts and no LE types will support their efforts.